Registration
Although registration is required, the process is quite easy. Simply e-mail the following information to Bob Walrath at rwalrath1@sc.rr.com:

Skipper’s name
Boat type
Sail number

There will be a registration fee of $20.00 this year to help defray the cost of awards and related expenses. The fee will cover all LMSC club racing for 2008.

Please send your check by March 8th if possible. While e-mail "pre-registration" is desirable, you may elect to enclose your registration information in the envelope with your check. For your convenience, you may download and complete the LMSC Rodesiler Series registration form to accompany your entry fee check. (Displaying the form requires Adobe Reader.)

Make checks payable to LMSC (or Lake Murray Sailing Club).

Mail to:
Bob Walrath
426 Three Point Road
Chapin, SC 29036-87074

If you did not register at the beginning of the season or have just joined the club, you are encouraged to register mid-season and join us for these truly fun racing events.

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2008 Rodesiler Series Sailing Instructions
(Click here for a PDF printable copy. Click here for MS Word)

1. Rules
The series will be governed by the rules as defined in the current Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008.

2. Entries
Entry is open to all LMSC members and all sailboats types. Members may invite guest competitors to participate in the series to a maximum of four (4) event dates. Guest competitors invited to participate by more than one LMSC member may accept all invitations provided the four (4) event date maximum is not exceeded.

Non-member competitors are not eligible to receive the Rodesiler or other season awards associated with the series competition. Guest competitors may be elegible to receive any recognition or awards that may result from a single day's competition.

3. Notices to Competitors
Notices to Competitors will be posted on the official notice board located on the patio under the LMSC Clubhouse.

4. Signals Made Ashore
Signals made ashore will be announced from the patio under the clubhouse. Postponement or abandomnent will be signaled by a horn and the postponement or abandonment flag flying from the docked committee boat.

5. Schedule
Races will be normally held on scheduled Saturdays. Following the first scheduled race of the day, any additional races will start ASAP after the first race ends. More than two races are possible. We intend to do three races per day minimum, if at all possible.

6. Class Flag
The class flag will be the number one (1) pennant.

7. Racing Area
The racing area will be the large body of water to the east of LMSC (it is approximately 1/2 hour sailing time to the course area). Wind conditions may require the use of other areas at the Race Committee's discretion.

8. Courses and Marks
The courses will be:

(#1) Start-Windward-Finish

(#2) Start-Windward-Leeward-Windward-Finish

(#3) Start-Windward-Leeward-Finish

(#4) Start-Windward-Leeward-Windward-Leeward-Finish

Course #1 & #2 use the starting line Orange Tetrahedron as the leeward mark. (See course illustrations.)

The course number will be displayed in the rack above the cabin top of the Committee boat. If the smaller committee boat is used, the course number will be displayed by the PRO. The windward and leeward marks will be orange tetrahedrons. Marks will be rounded to port.

9. Starting and Finishing
a.) The starting line will be between an orange flag on the race Committee boat and an orange flag on the staff of a small float ("man overboard" style). Courses #1 & #2 will use an orange tetrahedron for start and finish lines.

b.) The finishing line will be between an orange flag on the Race Committee boat and an orange flag on small "man overboard" type float or an orange tetrahedron or may be between a support boat and a mark of the course. (See course illustrations.)

c.) The starting sequence outlined in rule 26 will be used. The warning signal will be 5 minutes before the starting signal.

d.) The race committee may shorten the course as deemed necessary. When a race committee support boat displays the "S" flag at the windward or leeward mark, the finish will be from that mark directly to the regular finish line and not a mark of the course. This changes RRS Rule 32.2.

10. Time Limit
The time limit for each race will be 90 minutes for the first boat to finish. The last boat must finish 30 minutes or less after the first boat to finish. Target "first boat" finish time is 30 minutes.

11. Protests
Protest must be filed with the PRO within 30 minutes of the Committee Boat docking.

12. Scoring
a.) Scoring will be done using the Portsmouth rating charts from US Sailing. The low point system will be used.

b.) Any competitor awarded DNX (Did not compete, did not finish, disqualified, etc.) for a race will be awarded one more point than the number of boats entered in the series.

c.) To determine accumulative season scores in the 2008 Rodesiler Series, individual fleet standings will be scored based on 60% of the total Rodesiler races held in 2008. Competitors sailing more than 60% of season races may throw out their worst scores in excess of 60 %. Competitors sailing less than 60% of season races will be scored on actual events sailed plus any DNX events until the 60% minimum for scoring is reached.

d.) Competitors serving on Race Committee will be awarded a score of zero (0) for the first race served. Subsequent races served will be scored based on the competitor's season average to date, excluding any "throw out" races.

Addenda:
A-1) To qualify for the 2008 Rodesiler Award and for entry into the 2008 Commodore's Cup Regatta, competitors must serve at least once during the 2008 season as a member of a race committee. Serving in any capacity, (PRO, mark boat, timer, scorer, flags, etc.) meets this service requirement.

A-2) To qualify for the 2008 Rodesiler Award competitors must sail in at least 60% of Rodesiler Series races held during the 2008 season.

A-3) 2008 Rodesiler Series competitors who participate in at least 60% of Rodesiler Series races held during the 2008 season will be given preference for entering the 2008 Commodore's Cup regatta, our annual club championship series. Up to 12 entrants, based on fleet standing after competing in 60% of races, then in order of overall fleet standings, will be invited to compete for the Commodore's Cup.

Entrants not participating in the 2008 Rodesiler series may be accepted for the Commodore's Cup regatta if less than 12 eligible competitors register for the event.

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Course Illustrations
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